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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 8
Session Chair:
Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Validation of SNAP8 Criticality Configuration Experiments Using SERPENT
3:15–3:35PM MST
Samuel Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Isaac E. Naupa Aguirre (Georgia Tech), Anthony Boyd (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Oliver Paleen (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Design and Optimization of the Radiation Shadow Shield for a 3 MW Space Reactor
3:35–3:55PM MST
Luay M. Alawneh (TAMU), Faisal Aldebie (TAMU), Yassin Hassan (TAMU), Harold G. "Sonny" White (Limitless Space Institute)
Micro-SMR LEU+ Very Long-Lived Once-Through No-Onsite Refueling Cycle Performance Assessment
3:55–4:15PM MST
Gray Chang (JFoster & Assoc.), John Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Mie Hiruta (JFoster & Assoc.), Julie Foster (JFoster & Assoc.)
Selected Results from Full-Core Hydrogen Redistribution Asymptotic Analysis in YH-Moderated Heat-Pipe Cooled Microreactor
4:15–4:35PM MST
Stefano Terlizzi (INL), Vincent M. Laboure (INL), Mark D. DeHart (INL)
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